The SmithsVelvet UndergroundLou ReedREM (not all their albums, Automatic for the People and Life's Rich Pageant mostly)The DearsRush (also not everything)Serge GainsbourgDead can Dance

What are The Dears like? They're the only group on the list I haven't heard of... Hopefully more like The Smiths or REM than Dead Can Dance...

""Money doesn't come into it. It never has. I do what I do because it's all that I am." - Morrissey

"Lacan stressed more and more in his work the power and organizing principle of the symbolic, understood as the networks, social, cultural, and linguistic, into which a child is born. These precede the birth of a child, which is why Lacan can say that language is there from before the actual moment of birth. It is there in the social structures which are at play in the family and, of course, in the ideals, goals, and histories of the parents. This world of language can hardly be grasped by the newborn and yet it will act on the whole of the child's existence."

The Dears are a new group from Montreal, with a voice that sounds very much like Morissey's ... if you like the Smiths, you should like them, though they don't have half the spirit Morissey had in his lyrics.

And I agree that Dead Can Dance really didn't age well, and I didn't like them before seeing their show in Montreal 2-3 years ago. But now, I think they're very good, depending on my mood.

The Dears are a new group from Montreal, with a voice that sounds very much like Morissey's ... if you like the Smiths, you should like them, though they don't have half the spirit Morissey had in his lyrics.

Well, I swallowed the likes of Gene and Echobelly hook, line, and sinker, so I'll have to give The Dears a try...

""Money doesn't come into it. It never has. I do what I do because it's all that I am." - Morrissey

"Lacan stressed more and more in his work the power and organizing principle of the symbolic, understood as the networks, social, cultural, and linguistic, into which a child is born. These precede the birth of a child, which is why Lacan can say that language is there from before the actual moment of birth. It is there in the social structures which are at play in the family and, of course, in the ideals, goals, and histories of the parents. This world of language can hardly be grasped by the newborn and yet it will act on the whole of the child's existence."